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724558

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Community Health Services: Liverpool
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust's announcement of 30 March 2017 on the new arrangement to manage community services in Liverpool, what future bidding process NHS Improvement plans to use relating to the Liverpool Community Health Contract.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	72015
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

724559

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	NHS Improvement
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 13 April 2017 to Question 70905, on Department of Health, for what reasons NHS Improvement placed (a) Bernie Cuthell at Manchester Mental Health Trust and (b) Karen Jackson at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust.
	tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
	tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
	uin	72016
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

724560

	registered interest
	date	26/04/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Microplastics: Health Hazards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2017 to Question 70013, for what reason that Answer does not refer to any plans by his Department to conduct an assessment of the effect of microplastics entering the marine environment on human health.
	tabling member constituency	Romford
	tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
	uin	72013
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/05/2017 answer text <p><B>The House of Commons was prorogued before the earliest date of answer for this Question.</B></p> answering member constituency answering member printed question first answered 02/05/2017 10:00:00 answering member 0
	tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

435870

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Social Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what comparative assessment he has made of the ability of local authorities in the (a) poorest and (b) richest areas in England to meet their social care spending needs through a two per cent council tax charge.
	tabling member constituency	Bolton South East
	tabling member printed	Yasmin Qureshi
	uin	18915
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/12/2015 answer text <p>The Government recognises that councils have varying capacity to raise money through council tax. My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government will shortly publish for consultation the provisional local government finance settlement for 2016-17. This will include proposed changes to rebalance support, including to those authorities with social care responsibilities, by taking into account the main resources available to councils, including council tax.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 10/12/2015 13:21:29 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	3924 label Biography information for Yasmin Qureshi

381177

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how the Government plans to ensure that clinical commissioning groups spend appropriate and proportionate amounts on mental health.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	William Wragg
	uin	2459
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is giving greater priority and greater scrutiny to the mental health agenda. In its latest planning guidance, <em>Forward View into action: planning for 2015-16,</em> was the expectation that clinical commissioning croups’ (CCG) spending on mental health services in 2015/16 should increase in real terms, and grow by at least as much as each CCG’s allocation increase to support the ambition of parity between mental and physical health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At both a national and regional level, work is being done to robustly assure this and ensure there is clear validity for commissioner justification of proposed spend.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Five Year Forward View set out a clear commitment to driving towards a more equal response across mental and physical health and achieving genuine parity of esteem by 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A key element of achieving parity across mental and physical health care is in people having timely access to evidence-based and effective treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In October 2014, NHS England and the Department jointly published “Improving access to mental health services by 2020”. This set out a clear vision to ensure mental and physical health services are given equal priority through:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- targeted investment to help people in crisis to get effective support; and</p><p> </p><p>- the introduction of national waiting time standards to provide better access to mental health services over the next five years, subject to future resourcing decisions following the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first set of standards set the expectation that, from 1 April 2016:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis are treated with a NICE-approved package of care within two weeks of referral;</p><p> </p><p>- 75% of adults referred to the national programme for talking therapies will be treated within six weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks; and</p><p> </p><p>- £30 million investment targeted to support effective models of liaison psychiatry in a greater number of acute hospitals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is supported by an £80 million funding package for 2015/16 from NHS England’s budgets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, announcements in the autumn statement and spring budget have allocated additional funding to support transformative work to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and perinatal mental health services. Part of this funding will be allocated to developing waiting times standards for CAMHS, initially for community based eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A Mental Health Task Force has been constituted to produce a costed five-year plan for the National Health Service to support improvement of mental health services, which is anticipated to report during summer 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to delivering parity of esteem between mental health and physical health, and recognises that spending is one of the areas which must be addressed. Good progress is already being made:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Based on CCG and NHS England plans, there was a real terms increase in spending on mental health in 2014/15 compared to 2013/14;</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England required CCGs to increase their spending on mental health by at least as much as the growth in their programme allocations; and</p><p> </p><p>- In 2015/16, there are a range of new investments in mental health services, including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>o £250 million a year to improve services for expectant and new mothers, children and young people;</p><p> </p><p>o £80 million a year from NHS England’s budgets to improve early intervention in psychosis, liaison psychiatry and Talking Therapies services for common mental health conditions, and to deliver new access and waiting time standards; and</p><p> </p><p>o £30 million a year to improve community services for children and people with eating disorders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 2460 2462 2463 question first answered 23/06/2015 12:48:42 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

381178

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that clinical commissioning groups take practical steps to give equal value to physical and mental health care.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	William Wragg
	uin	2460
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is giving greater priority and greater scrutiny to the mental health agenda. In its latest planning guidance, <em>Forward View into action: planning for 2015-16,</em> was the expectation that clinical commissioning croups’ (CCG) spending on mental health services in 2015/16 should increase in real terms, and grow by at least as much as each CCG’s allocation increase to support the ambition of parity between mental and physical health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At both a national and regional level, work is being done to robustly assure this and ensure there is clear validity for commissioner justification of proposed spend.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Five Year Forward View set out a clear commitment to driving towards a more equal response across mental and physical health and achieving genuine parity of esteem by 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A key element of achieving parity across mental and physical health care is in people having timely access to evidence-based and effective treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In October 2014, NHS England and the Department jointly published “Improving access to mental health services by 2020”. This set out a clear vision to ensure mental and physical health services are given equal priority through:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- targeted investment to help people in crisis to get effective support; and</p><p> </p><p>- the introduction of national waiting time standards to provide better access to mental health services over the next five years, subject to future resourcing decisions following the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first set of standards set the expectation that, from 1 April 2016:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis are treated with a NICE-approved package of care within two weeks of referral;</p><p> </p><p>- 75% of adults referred to the national programme for talking therapies will be treated within six weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks; and</p><p> </p><p>- £30 million investment targeted to support effective models of liaison psychiatry in a greater number of acute hospitals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is supported by an £80 million funding package for 2015/16 from NHS England’s budgets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, announcements in the autumn statement and spring budget have allocated additional funding to support transformative work to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and perinatal mental health services. Part of this funding will be allocated to developing waiting times standards for CAMHS, initially for community based eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A Mental Health Task Force has been constituted to produce a costed five-year plan for the National Health Service to support improvement of mental health services, which is anticipated to report during summer 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to delivering parity of esteem between mental health and physical health, and recognises that spending is one of the areas which must be addressed. Good progress is already being made:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Based on CCG and NHS England plans, there was a real terms increase in spending on mental health in 2014/15 compared to 2013/14;</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England required CCGs to increase their spending on mental health by at least as much as the growth in their programme allocations; and</p><p> </p><p>- In 2015/16, there are a range of new investments in mental health services, including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>o £250 million a year to improve services for expectant and new mothers, children and young people;</p><p> </p><p>o £80 million a year from NHS England’s budgets to improve early intervention in psychosis, liaison psychiatry and Talking Therapies services for common mental health conditions, and to deliver new access and waiting time standards; and</p><p> </p><p>o £30 million a year to improve community services for children and people with eating disorders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 2459 2462 2463 question first answered 23/06/2015 12:48:43 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

381180

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Children and Young People
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps the Government is taking to improve support for children and young people with mental health issues.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	William Wragg
	uin	2461
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>This Government is committed to improving children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. The Department is working with NHS England and other partners to enhance significantly the support offered to children and young people.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We are already making progress in a number of areas including:</p><p> </p><p>- The extension and expansion of the children and young people’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme.</p><p> </p><p>- Joint training and piloting of staff in schools and local mental health services to strengthen the mental health support and advice available in schools.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department is also commissioning the first prevalence survey of child and adolescent mental health in over 10 years. The survey will provide an accurate assessment of how many children and young people are living with mental health issues. Publication is anticipated in 2017.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, NHS England is leading work to develop new access and waiting time standards for eating disorder services.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 23/06/2015 13:17:56 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

381182

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress the Government is making on ensuring that parity of esteem between mental and physical health services is fully delivered.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	William Wragg
	uin	2462
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is giving greater priority and greater scrutiny to the mental health agenda. In its latest planning guidance, <em>Forward View into action: planning for 2015-16,</em> was the expectation that clinical commissioning croups’ (CCG) spending on mental health services in 2015/16 should increase in real terms, and grow by at least as much as each CCG’s allocation increase to support the ambition of parity between mental and physical health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At both a national and regional level, work is being done to robustly assure this and ensure there is clear validity for commissioner justification of proposed spend.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Five Year Forward View set out a clear commitment to driving towards a more equal response across mental and physical health and achieving genuine parity of esteem by 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A key element of achieving parity across mental and physical health care is in people having timely access to evidence-based and effective treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In October 2014, NHS England and the Department jointly published “Improving access to mental health services by 2020”. This set out a clear vision to ensure mental and physical health services are given equal priority through:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- targeted investment to help people in crisis to get effective support; and</p><p> </p><p>- the introduction of national waiting time standards to provide better access to mental health services over the next five years, subject to future resourcing decisions following the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first set of standards set the expectation that, from 1 April 2016:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis are treated with a NICE-approved package of care within two weeks of referral;</p><p> </p><p>- 75% of adults referred to the national programme for talking therapies will be treated within six weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks; and</p><p> </p><p>- £30 million investment targeted to support effective models of liaison psychiatry in a greater number of acute hospitals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is supported by an £80 million funding package for 2015/16 from NHS England’s budgets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, announcements in the autumn statement and spring budget have allocated additional funding to support transformative work to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and perinatal mental health services. Part of this funding will be allocated to developing waiting times standards for CAMHS, initially for community based eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A Mental Health Task Force has been constituted to produce a costed five-year plan for the National Health Service to support improvement of mental health services, which is anticipated to report during summer 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to delivering parity of esteem between mental health and physical health, and recognises that spending is one of the areas which must be addressed. Good progress is already being made:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Based on CCG and NHS England plans, there was a real terms increase in spending on mental health in 2014/15 compared to 2013/14;</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England required CCGs to increase their spending on mental health by at least as much as the growth in their programme allocations; and</p><p> </p><p>- In 2015/16, there are a range of new investments in mental health services, including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>o £250 million a year to improve services for expectant and new mothers, children and young people;</p><p> </p><p>o £80 million a year from NHS England’s budgets to improve early intervention in psychosis, liaison psychiatry and Talking Therapies services for common mental health conditions, and to deliver new access and waiting time standards; and</p><p> </p><p>o £30 million a year to improve community services for children and people with eating disorders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 2459 2460 2463 question first answered 23/06/2015 12:48:43 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

381183

	registered interest
	date	15/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Mental Health Services: Finance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to rebalance the NHS budget to ensure mental health care receives the level of investment needed.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	William Wragg
	uin	2463
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2015 answer text <p>NHS England is giving greater priority and greater scrutiny to the mental health agenda. In its latest planning guidance, <em>Forward View into action: planning for 2015-16,</em> was the expectation that clinical commissioning croups’ (CCG) spending on mental health services in 2015/16 should increase in real terms, and grow by at least as much as each CCG’s allocation increase to support the ambition of parity between mental and physical health.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>At both a national and regional level, work is being done to robustly assure this and ensure there is clear validity for commissioner justification of proposed spend.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England’s Five Year Forward View set out a clear commitment to driving towards a more equal response across mental and physical health and achieving genuine parity of esteem by 2020.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A key element of achieving parity across mental and physical health care is in people having timely access to evidence-based and effective treatment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In October 2014, NHS England and the Department jointly published “Improving access to mental health services by 2020”. This set out a clear vision to ensure mental and physical health services are given equal priority through:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- targeted investment to help people in crisis to get effective support; and</p><p> </p><p>- the introduction of national waiting time standards to provide better access to mental health services over the next five years, subject to future resourcing decisions following the next Spending Review.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The first set of standards set the expectation that, from 1 April 2016:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- 50% of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis are treated with a NICE-approved package of care within two weeks of referral;</p><p> </p><p>- 75% of adults referred to the national programme for talking therapies will be treated within six weeks, and 95% within 18 weeks; and</p><p> </p><p>- £30 million investment targeted to support effective models of liaison psychiatry in a greater number of acute hospitals.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This is supported by an £80 million funding package for 2015/16 from NHS England’s budgets.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition, announcements in the autumn statement and spring budget have allocated additional funding to support transformative work to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and perinatal mental health services. Part of this funding will be allocated to developing waiting times standards for CAMHS, initially for community based eating disorder services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>A Mental Health Task Force has been constituted to produce a costed five-year plan for the National Health Service to support improvement of mental health services, which is anticipated to report during summer 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to delivering parity of esteem between mental health and physical health, and recognises that spending is one of the areas which must be addressed. Good progress is already being made:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>- Based on CCG and NHS England plans, there was a real terms increase in spending on mental health in 2014/15 compared to 2013/14;</p><p> </p><p>- NHS England required CCGs to increase their spending on mental health by at least as much as the growth in their programme allocations; and</p><p> </p><p>- In 2015/16, there are a range of new investments in mental health services, including:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>o £250 million a year to improve services for expectant and new mothers, children and young people;</p><p> </p><p>o £80 million a year from NHS England’s budgets to improve early intervention in psychosis, liaison psychiatry and Talking Therapies services for common mental health conditions, and to deliver new access and waiting time standards; and</p><p> </p><p>o £30 million a year to improve community services for children and people with eating disorders.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt grouped question UIN 2459 2460 2462 question first answered 23/06/2015 12:48:43 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg

432001

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Ophthalmic Services: Greater Manchester
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the level of provision of eye clinic liaison officers is in eye clinics and hospitals in (a) Greater Manchester and (b) Hazel Grove constituency.
	tabling member constituency	Hazel Grove
	tabling member printed	William Wragg
	uin	17533
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2015 answer text <p>This information is not collected centrally.</p><br /><p>Eye clinics and their staffing, including eye clinic liaison officers, are commissioned and funded by individual clinical commissioning groups on the basis of local assessments of need.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 30/11/2015 17:26:52 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4429 label Biography information for Mr William Wragg